2 Chronicles 34:9

(9) And when they came . . . they delivered.—And they came . . . and they gave. In 2Ki_22:3-7, the contents of 2Ch_34:9-12 a are given in the form of the king’s instructions to Shaphan. Here we are told that those instructions were carried out. “They delivered (wayyittĕnû) is substituted for the difficult wĕyattçm of Kings (i.e., “and let him pay out”).

From the hand of Manasseh . . . Benjamin.—Kings, “from the people.” Reuss oddly imagines that these words denote “a kind of organised collection throughout all Palestine,” and then proceeds to draw an inference unfavourable to the chronicler.

And they returned to Jerusalem.—This is the meaning of the Qri or Hebrew margin. The Hebrew text has, “and the inhabitants of Jerusalem,” which is correct.

A Bible Commentary for English Readers, edited by Charles John Ellicott (1878–1897) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.

2Ch 34:9 And when they came to Hilkiah the high priest, they delivered the money that was brought into the house of God, which the Levites that kept the doors had gathered of the hand of Manasseh and Ephraim, and of all the remnant of Israel, and of all Judah and Benjamin; and they returned to Jerusalem.

Ver. 9. And when they came to Hilkiah the high priest.] See 2Ki 22:4.

They delivered the money, &c.] The like was done. {2Ki 12:10-11} Only things are here more exactly set down.

Which the Levites had gathered.] The Pope, under pretext of repairing St Peter’s Church in Rome, gathered great sums of money by his pardon mongers in Germany, and England, and elsewhere, till people grew wiser.

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Or, they returned to Jerusalem.

Geneva Bible (1599) marginal notes — public domain. Text via Bolls.life.

Verse 9. And they returned to Jerusalem.] Instead of וישבו vaiyashubu, "they returned," we should read יושבי yoshebey, "the inhabitants;" a reading which is supported by many MSS., printed editions, and all the versions, as well as by necessity and common sense. 2Ch 19:8, where a similar mistake is rectified.

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9. And when they came … they delivered] R.V. And they came … and delivered. The matter is somewhat differently stated in 2 Kin. according to which they are sent to Hilkiah with a message to him to “sum” i.e. to reckon the total of the money collected in the Temple.

the Levites that kept the doors] R.V. the Levites, the keepers of the door. In 2Ki_12:9 the keepers of the doors are called priests; cp. ib. 2Ki_25:18.

of the hand of Manasseh etc.] In 2 Kin. simply “of the people.”

and they returned to Jerusalem] R.V. and of the inhabitants of Jerusalem. The A.V. (cp. for the meaning of this rendering, 2Ch_24:5) follows one reading of the Hebrew (the Ḳ’rî), the R.V., in agreement with the LXX., follows the other reading (C’thib).

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And they put it,.... The king's ministers did:

in the hand of the workmen that had the oversight of the house of the Lord; whose business it was to inspect the temple, and see what repairs were necessary, and to overlook the workmen in making those repairs; the names of these overseers are in Ch2 34:12,

and they gave it to the workmen that wrought in the house of the Lord, to repair and mend the house; that is, the overseers gave the money they received to the labourers, as the hire of their labour, and the reward of their work, and to buy materials with, as follows.

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i.e. The Levites, who had gone abroad through all Josiah’s kingdom to gather money for this good use, and now came with it to Jerusalem, to lodge it in the treasuries of the Lord’s house.

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Hilkiah the high priest. Of Hilkiah"s ancestors and descendants we learn something in the following references: 1Ch_6:13, 14 9:11; 2Ki_25:18; Neh_11:11; Ezr_7:1. They delivered. This means that Hilkiah"s people delivered of what they had collected to Shaphan and his colleagues, who again in their turn (ver. 10) "put it into the hand of the workmen," etc. This is certainly the meaning of 2Ki_22:4-9. And they returned to Jerusalem; translate, and of the dwellers in Jerusalem. Note Keri, and see 2Ch_35:18; and Septuagint rendering here and there.

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which the Levites who guarded the threshold had gathered from the hands of Manasseh and Ephraim, etc. from their ruins round about.

Rashi on the Tanakh — English translations: “The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg” (CC BY 4.0); “Pentateuch with Rashi's commentary by M. Rosenbaum and A.M. Silbermann, 1929-1934” (public domain); “The Metsudah Tanach series, Lakewood, N.J” (CC BY 4.0); and “The Book of Joshua, Metsudah Publications, 1997” (CC BY 4.0). Text via Sefaria.